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By Elias Leventhal I was first exposed to math in sixth grade. I wasn’t raised in a cave, or by wolves; my childhood was perfectly normal. But sixth grade was when I discovered Mathcounts and saw the true beauty of the subject for the first time. Mathcounts is the

The backstory "I think I had a stroke." It was at a Disney family vacation when my mom said her left leg was not working correctly. She was 87. These six words changed our world. After a year and a half of medical specialist visits, back surgery, physical

Scarborough, Maine, is a fast-growing coastal Southern Maine town. With growth comes change and with change comes both prosperity and heightened divisiveness among residents. Some of the sharpest divisions have emerged over school policy. The recalling of several school board members over disputes related to personnel, educational policy, and school

By Terrell Halaska Dunn Baseball is Life  By Terrell Halaska Dunn  Last year, Opening Day landed almost exactly one month after the death of my father-in-law, Jerry. People always talk about occasions like the first birthday, or Christmas, after a loved one dies as particularly hard. For my husband David,

By Nina I want to highlight one significant inaccuracy in Tangle’s take on the social media hearings in Congress from February, and a very common fundamental misunderstanding with ad targeting.  In that edition, Isaac wrote the following: “There are two major changes I think Congress can and should try

By Jerry Bryan A north star is, for example, forest restoration. Atomic restoration is a constellation of north stars. — Matt King, low-carbon energy expert  Born and raised in the Columbia River Gorge on the border of Washington and Oregon downwind of what is now the Hanford Manhattan Project National Historic

By Anonymous MD I am a physician, a husband, and a father. I am a religious man; my faith is at the very center of my life. I am politically conservative and subscribe to Objectivist philosophy, which focuses on pursuing solutions that are logical and evidence-based. I believe in small